Happy Easter all! Firstly- I'll start by saying, that I have slipped off the bandwagon regarding smoking. But I have plans to stop from tomorrow. Last week at work was frankly awful. If you look at my blog entries from last February, the same situation occured again, which led to my boss and my bosses boss coming down on my side as my work team decided to play silly beggers , resulting in a very embarrasing moment for a trainer from the British Parking Association. So I got very stressed and ang
There was one big advantage from the pub closing- we took the Projection Screen TV- which means 82 inch square screen. In our lounge!
I don't need glasses to watch the football results anymore
Mind you scary thing is that you can see Sharon Osbournes staple marks from the all the plastic surgery
Well followers of my blog will know the stress of my worklife. So finally.......
Having been stressed out, team stuff (most of which I hate), I was referred to Occ Health at work.And hopefully this means I will become a CEO (in old terms a Traffic Warden again).
I can't wait. Seriously. No more team giving me grief- just life on street.
Life can be odd, but I'm going back to life 4 yrs ago. And I cannot wait.
Right here goes.
I've been reading Net Weather for some time now, and only came across the Blogs last week, what a great idea, I thought, I'll start one.
So who am I, and where, what etc. Well my screen name says it all, I'm Phil and I live in Glossop in North Derbyshire. Actually I live in Dinting which is 2 miles from Glossop, but who's spliting hairs! I live with my partner Daz, who's I've been with for some 4 years now, and we have two dogs, Will and Tasmin. Oh and 3 cats.
I'm orginally
Why is it when you pack away your Xmas lights from last year they work perfectly? You pack them away in a nice tidy bundle, but when you come to get them out, the Loft Fairies have been using them for nesting and they don't work!
So you spend 2 hours finding the bulb that doesn't work and then when you put them on the tree they fuse throwing the whole house into darkness.
This is has been my morning. I'm off to Focus to buy a new set. I have no doubt the same will happen next year
Still it
Was in work yesterday- having been off sick with a cold last Tuesday, when at lunchtime I went into the toilet and promply threw up solidly for 5 minutes.
Came home from work, and threw up all afternoon and then it started from another area.
Therefore, I am in bed as a type this. So thats my sickness record out of the window, but no way am I going to work like this.
Well what a day!
Put GMTV on at 6am to hear the words snow on the Peak District today. Looked out the window to NOTHING, but icy windowscreen.
Anyway got to work for 730, and thought nothing of it, other than, a long Monday ahead. Then I got the call that changed the day.
"Phil it's me, you'd better come home, it's snowing badly". Thanks Daz i thought. And to be honest, the roads out of Rotherham were clear. Started thinking dark thoughts like "idiot getting me home, theres no snow". But as I
Today is day 10 without a ciggie.
Now moving into the 2nd phase of the relationship when you've split with something.
I HATE EVERYTHING :lol: I will not give up on this mind.
The only thing that's keep me going all day is the thought of the final of "Laddette to Lady". :lol: Well I need a laugh.
Knee better- will try a short run tomorrow. Fingers crossed.
Hows you Louby? Thanks for messages by the way!!!!
After 4 years of tireless hard work my iron has finally died. In quite spectacular fashion (no pun intended)- it has managed to fuse the house totally
However, this means I cannot do my weekly chore until pay day. - will I get away with creased shirts at work??
Been an eventful week.
The oven caught fire last Sunday :unsure: the thing was old and knackered but the fire was quite spectacular. Anyway, firemen came around and put the oven out, the roast was ruined.
So it's been insurance forms all week. We lost the kitchen lino (melted), ceilling (burnt), worktops (nothing wrong with them but we're claiming as they are old ).
its been microwave meals and takeaways all week. But the new oven is due next week, and hopefully we'll have a kitchen in th
Slightly better today- well enough to go to work- on lates which will show that I'm not a sickness freak hopefully).
So work at 1315 till 2245. Nice
And same tomorrow night!
And as for the diet? The only thing I fancy eating is plain rice. Which is nice.............
Well I hope you all had a FANTASTIC Christmas. We've got home from sunny Plymouth about an hour ago. Lots of partying, fun, frolics, and I've got a black eye (but then that's what happens when some of my friends get rather silly on alcohol! Play hitting got slightly out of hand )
Actually it was all rather nice, catching up on all the gossip and seeing who's seeing who now. Went to church Xmas Eve, had mince pies with my Aunt and Uncle on Boxing Day, just the usual, normal NICE Christmas.
Oh
In line with Katie's blog and events in Exeter yesterday- Plymouth had 2 serious incidents today although no bombings luckily. Basically I was day off today, so decided to go into town for a pint (or 3) at lunchtime. Being a responsible person we took the bus into town- only to get caught in the 1st alert in North Hill (around the University and library). Thought nothing of it- and walked the back way to the pub on Bretonside. However when we left to catch the bus on Royal Parade- all hell had b
Some 5 miles from home and very close to where I grew up, is Wembury beach. It is owned by the National Trust and the perfect spot for dog walking in winter. Sadly you aren't allowed to take the dogs there in summer. But it was a lovely cloudy crisp December day. All my cousins in Sheffield and Chesterfield love this place- so if you've never heard of Wembury- here it is.
Our main TV died on 15 December. Darren was so upset as he had bought it 9 years ago. It was his baby. 8P
The TV we were given to get through till 31 January (pay day) also died today. It was so old it remembers ATV/Westward and Southern TV.
So we went to Cash Converters and have a Sony 28" widescreen now for £71.00.
I am starting a new TV fund. The 82" screen from the pub will do for a good film only. The bulbs are £150 each. In a pub fine, in our home No!!!!
Will it snow. In Plymouth.
Well it's been an odd week, snow Monday, ice Tuesday, wet since.
Home life is good, with my new PC coming tomorrow morning. Thanks to AOL messing up, i have a new router (£80) for free working, meaning top speed broadband. EXCELLENT
Work, well thats a different matter. For reasons I can't go into, i've spent 3 hours with the police today. Thankfully nothing wrong with my Parking Lads and Ladies, more helping for a neighbouring force in an enquiry. I've been able to talk to Daz about it (than
After the funeral yesterday and about 3 hours sleep last night and 6 hours the night before, I'm tired today. I'm having a glass of wine and a Nytol. :lol: Blimey what happened to Sat nights out drinking till 3am?? It's called life and helping friends out. And it beats clubbing by thousands to one. Everytime.
I'm off sick today, got a nasty stomach bug, of which the details are just too gruesome to explain. However it is nice not to worry about people ringing me and moaning at me........
SO, the burning question is, will it snow? Managed to get the dogs out for a walk yesterday on the Woodhead railway line, and even our friends who can with us couldn't believe just how cold it was. The hills have got a "blue" look to them at the moment, and the last time they looked like that was February. We had 2
Time to update
In my last blog I was gutted, upset. And yes I left him. The end result of that was horrendous, awful, but in a weird way, my work life actually improved!!
Last weekend was a total watershed. I will never go into the details online- but I had the worst night of my life last Friday night. I am so proud of Darren for his reactions and actions since- but the end result is finally and after a long week of talking until 3/4am each morning- I have moved back home and put my wedding r
Hallam FM have taken a well known xmas advert and changed the words, they seemed rather apt yesterday....
"hangovers are coming, hangovers are coming, all drink the real thing" (thats the coke ad )
blimey my head pounded yesterday, . Looked at my last blog, blimey i must have been bad. All I know is i slept on the landing (missed the bedroom) and Daz wouldn't talk to me. So I'm told, I was singing carols at the top of my voice at 1130 having failed to get my key in the front door
I have sp
So I forgot the alarm this morning, so that was a mad morning rush. Pay day today, not coffee bar decaf- all the taste no buzz!
Anyway works lunch which turned into, "can highways beat parking on pint for pint".Answer, yup, parking wins....... thats some hangover in Mexborough Mr Lineacre.
Sorry if daffodiled but Xmas has started.
Will have hangover from hell tomorrow........
Day 3
No rows at work, only one before bed last night- when I lost my rag with Daz. And slept in the spare bed. Anyhoo
Had a pointless course at work this morning on Equality. Now as a gay man I'm all for Equality but it's 2008 and I know things are soooo much better than they were in 1998. But the upshot of this course was to talk about life as if it was 1998 and not 2008? So I lost interest and looked at the duckpond by Plymouth Civic Centre and looked at Stan and Hilda (our 2 ducks) for 3 h
Half my work team have decided that they hate me. With a passion. I was told to my face that I was a liar, a divider and that I didn't care. This after I send weekly emails and praise them all at the weekly meeting - Ijust don't know. However, they tried the same tack with the guy before me, HR are fully aware.
What made it all the more shocking was to be threated by one of my staffs husband, who happens to work in the same building, in front 2 neutral staff. So tomorrow could be fun.......
